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Turns, classified as "Town of art and history", testifies to a prestigious past, print of times and styles which left at the richer and invaluable city inheritance. Capital of the kingdom of France to the XV E and XVI E century, the city has treasures which it knew to preserve and promote. Since 2000, Turns and more generally the Loire Valley belong to the world inheritance of UNESCO , under cultural landscape. That includes, underlines Domenica Tremblay, director of the Mission Loire Valley "the whole of the aspects cultural, economic, the natural landscape, its evolution with the action of the man and the result of the interactions of the man and nature."
Known internationally for its castles, the Loire Valley must "exceed this traditional image by proposing the richness of fauna and of the flora, the cultural and economic offer of the area" insists it. The houses with wood sides, the cathedral Saint-Gatien, the bridge Wilson, the château& also fill with wonder them at many tourists. Place of walks and reflexions, of meetings and exchanges, the place Plumereau, old place of the market, became an irresistible centre of attraction of the tourangelle city. This historical and pedestrian district (Saint Martin's day Basilica, Charlemagne& Turn) indeed shelters many coffees, bars, pubs, restaurants and discotheques. Moreover, since 1988, the label "town of art and history" marks the engagement of the city in the development of this inheritance; this, not only for one tourist development (descriptive of the monuments, visits conférences&), but also with a teaching aim, on the one hand in educational circle (ateliers&), on the other hand near all the public ones with temporary exposures presenting the various aspects of the artistic and architectural richnesses.
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